Val d'Arno; ten lectures on the Tuscan art directly antecedent to the Florentine year of victories; given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1873
John Ruskin's ten Oxford lectures of Michaelmas 1873 on Tuscan sculpture and architecture before the Florentine fourteenth century, reissued in New York in 1891 by Charles E. Merrill with an introduction by Charles Eliot Norton for students and general readers. The plates are photographic details of carved stone and marble reliefs \u2014 pulpit panels crowded with haloed figures, sleeping soldiers in heavy drapery, foliate borders and colonnettes \u2014 usable as texture, drapery reference, and ornamental banding.
